"What the HELL is this, Archie?" I yell, slamming him against his locker, showing him the paused video on my phone. Archie stands clear as day with many shirtless teenagers behind him all wearing red hoods.
"A threat! He needs to know I'm not afraid of him, WE'RE not afraid of him." Archie says.
"Archie this man is a SERIAL KILLER!" I yell, slamming my hand against the locker beside him. "Do you really think this is going to scare him off? It's not. It's only going to entice him! After this... What if he comes after you, huh?"
I let Archie go and turn away from him, running my hands through my hair and turning back
"Let him! I need him to pay for what he did to dad, Nova!" Archie says.
"Archie you are a 16-year-old boy. NOT a vigilante! This needs to stop!" I yell, slamming this time my fist against the locker.
"Someone needs to protect us!" Archie yells back at me.
"But who's going to protect you, Archie?!" I yell.
"I don't care what happens to me." Archie says,
"Well I do! Fred does, what about Veronica, and Betty and Jughead? What about us?!" At this point I don't know if I'm angry or upset.
"Okay you two, break up the domestic..." Reggie says, trying to move me away from Archie.
"Get your hands off me, Mantle. Otherwise I will literally crack open your skull." I yell at him, shoving him off of me.
"Woah- Chill out Nov-"
"Don't tell me to fucking chill out! Get your shit together, Archie." I growl, storming away.
I make the decision to leave school. I hop on my bike and speed off towards my house. I burst throw the front door and into the living room with boiling blood, where Fred sits flicking through the newspaper.
"Nova? Shouldn't you be at school?" Fred asks me, standing up.
"I was! Until someone in the halls said something about my 'crazy brother's video' so I asked around and found this! My bonehead brother sending an outright threat to the black hood!" I yell, showing my phone to Fred, showing him what I had shown Archie earlier.
"What the hell?" Fred asks, getting out his phone.
"I already sent you the link. I tried talking sense into him, but he just tried to give me his whole vigilante speech." I say.
"Thank you for telling me, Nova." Fred says.
"I'm so mad. I can't deal with this. I'm just going to go on a run." I say.
"Be safe." Fred says.
"Always am."
*
When I return from my run I call to Fred that I'm home before going up to my room to find Archie sitting on my bed.
"Do you mind?" I ask.
"You told him?" Archie asks.
"Archie, you pretty much put a target on your back. I had to, plus do you really think he wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't? The whole town is talking about your stupid video." I tell him.
"Nova, you really don't understand, do you?" He asks.
"Obviously I don't. But I'm not letting you get yourself killed, Archie!" I tell him
"If all you're going to do is intervene then stay the hell out of it, Nova!" Archie yells.
"Archie you're my brother! I don't want to see you hurt, or worse!" I say.
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Resilience | Sweet Pea.
FanfictionResilience; (n.) the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. "I came to the place I felt the safest." I tell him. "With you." Nova Daniels, the adoptive sister of Riverdale's very own Archie Andrews, has had trouble after trouble...
